Birth of Karl Marx — 200 years Few thinkers have influenced the geopolitical landscape to anywhere near the extent that Prussian polymath Karl Marx did with his theories on labor and industry and his articulation of the communist ideal.

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Origin and Etymology of polymath

Greek polymathēs very learned, from poly- + manthanein to learn — more at mathematical